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actual sad as opposed to
philosophy.
So I don't first of all I don't know if
anything I'm going to tell you is novel
to you and I don't know if anything I'm
going to tell you you haven't heard
already. I asked the people who asked me
to do this. I said what about overlap? I
says we'll risk it. We'll wing it. We're
not going to worry about overlap.
Um so we're going to do the sed we're
going to talk about the sed as if it's
an actual sed rather than just um the
learning about the sed the the the f if
you open up the which you probably do
not have the first thing is
the unusual thing here is you don't say
even though you make
when you're doing
right you should say
and the reason you don't make the bad is
for two reasons number one is not enough
number two you don't really need you
needs
means you're not allowed to own P
how do you not own Pes you finish it
you destroy it
and you're maf it right you eat it
You destroy whatever you have, right?
You crumple it and put it into the wing
or you throw it into the sea. We our
custom is of course is to burn it.
And you say you say
if I have
it's not mine. I don't want it. Anybody
can have it. It has no value to me.
That's and that's called beer means in
doesn't mean to destroy only. It means
to get it out of my property. So this is
one of those cases where you make the
bra in the beginning of the mitzvah for
something that you're going to do later.
I'll give you the opposite scenario.
There is an argument to be made that
when you build a you should make
that the I think the talks about that
question brings the issue himself or
when you prepare you say
to prepare.
So the says that if you're doing a
mitzvah in stages,
you wait for the final stage
which is the actual mitzvah and wait to
make the then that's why we do not make
a live or you make
and when you make the you're including
in that also the fact that you did a
mitz when you built it and the same is
true when you purchase here is the
opposite you're making the
when you're doing
the is going to be the next day when you
burn it and when you say the second
where your maf not just the you don't
know about your maf even the you do know
about so they're just a little bit of an
interesting thing to notice right you're
making a on something which you're going
to do the next day now of course it's
one person per household that makes this
braha and it's one of those weird cases
the women who did all the cleaning are
not allowed to do theika because since
they clean the house, they're not going
to do it so well because they already
think the house is clean. So the men
have to do the badika because they
didn't clean the house and they'll take
the badika seriously. And then of course
we say it's very important they say it's
very important for you to say to be
because
particular
we're very very very
and it's impossible for a person to be
sure they don't have a mash in their
home by saying by saying the words and
you have to say them on time meaning the
morning of pes which this year is on a
Wednesday before the time that You have
to say whether you are by a burning or
you're not by a burning because if you
have you want to get rid of it you don't
want it to be yours. If then during PES
you find a wafer which happens in Jewish
homes the wafer is not you're not buy
because you maka that wafer it's not you
you made it he not yours but you made it
he by saying
>> what do you have to burn it? So the
truth of the matter is it's a mig the
burning the is is a symbol symbolic
thing and really more than anything else
it's a mystical thing. It's a cabalistic
thing. You don't have to have 10 pieces
of bread either.
>> So you're supposed to burn it. You're
not burning it because it's yours.
You're burning it. So you shouldn't eat
it. In the expression of the
you find a beautiful cookie and you're
going to want to eat it. So you're
burning it even if it's not yours. and
you're not even buy you're burning it
because you don't want to have it and
after basically you're not gonna have
enough of it.
>> Why can't you eat it after? Okay.
Technically, you probably are allowed if
it's not yours, but we don't do it
because it was avail
if if the if the wafer is in the part of
the house that you sold, it's not a
problem if you find a wafer in your pes
kitchen. In other words, you didn't do a
proper padika. The the the cookie was
not in the closet that was sold. The
cookie was a guy told me it did such a
painful story. He was newly married his
first year and they were so afraid of
Pesak and his wife and they worked so
hard to make Pesak. They sat down to the
sad and on the shelf in their dining
room they had the dish with the salt
that they used to do hami.
It was full of crumbs.
The push started to cry with the Of
course not. They were mafet. They didn't
want it. But you try so hard. It's right
there in front of your nose in the
dining room in the room where you're
sitting with the sedan
salt. They killed it 15 million deaths.
You could save it after. You're supposed
to put it away. And if you find it out,
the is you destroy it because we we we
burn the candle at both ends. The makes
it not yours. me if you find it you
don't want to say you don't want to eat
it after bes you destroy it
now as you already sort of led me on
the real business of burning is an
Indiani in other words from a technical
perspective of
um your right but you don't have to put
down 10 pieces we put down 10 pieces
that's not because otherwise the is of
because you're not making the on the
bread that you're finding You're not
making the on the bread that you're
burning. You're making the braha on the
co.
Now it is a little bit uh unusual
because we don't usually make a bra on a
mitzvah of
you understand if you don't burn the
you're making a bra on words and to make
a bra on words actually we do that by by
the migill I'm sorry
>> point well taken right right you don't
make a bra on a bra but you don't really
need the 10 pieces you don't have to
make a fire a pick of these things are
important. There's mystical reasons to
burn it. Their that we say after we burn
the by day is is very interesting. You
talk about destroying
is right. What's is
on a more fine level but not entirely
ideal level
needing to understand everything and
lacking the ability to accept
and which is what mat is. And before pes
we destroy the we destroy our ga our
yesesh our association with all those
other and if you read the you see that a
lot of the in that we do as a minhog is
justified not only on the grounds or let
me say it a little differently not
entirely on the grounds it's justified
on the spiritual grounds we're
destroying
and I want to say something to you about
this Okay,
comet is good.
Reasons for things are good. You're
supposed to have reasons for things. And
G is also good,
but not PES.
Cuz every PES we reset.
Every PES we're reborn as a nation. And
when you're born, you're little. And
when you're little, the most important
thing is your amuna.
When you're little, the most important
thing is your sincerity.
What you're little, what's most
important is your ability to have to do
what you're told.
So,
which is
and the which means the need to
understand they may have a place in our
lives but not now. When a yid goes out
of when yid is born a new the foundation
of being a Jew is a faith sincerity and
acceptance
every pes we reset every pes we envisage
we imagine ourselves going out of we're
starting again and when we start again
we're little children and we're little
children we eat matzah we destroy
because the beginning of our lives is
aim if I had to say that in a more
comprehensive way. This would be the
phrase that I would use
came to God brain first.
We come to God brain last
went from his brain to his nish to the
we go from to our brain. P is the
season. It's the beginning. Every year
we're starting over. So we destroy the
which later on is going to become not
just acceptable but actually is going to
become a mitzvah.
We destroy the we destroy the ga. We
destroy the need to reason and we
approach our connection to Hashem with
faith and sincerity and
was the of two days ago
yesterday pardon no two days ago.
um the the the carbon
of of
which is brought on right
and the next says
you're not allowed to bring in any
you're not bring anything which is tasty
and then you immediately say oh there's
two exceptions one exception is the
bread of
and the other is I think right the fruit
that you bring to the bd
Um so we're going to da use
because the avoid is we should graduate
the which graduate the guy we should
graduate the tambas but not pes this
morning I was giving a class to my
students in yeshiva and he was talking
about which is the only carbon that we
mention after all the before is after so
it says in mish that after msiah comes
all the bottle except for the carbon
So the question becomes what makes the
carbon so unique that all the bottle is
bottle of bottle is bottle of bottle
only carbon why so one of the reasons
it's given it's because the only carbon
that has
and the carbon is going to be elevating
so it's not always bad it's not entirely
bad now it's bad now it's bad and now
it's so we destroy the And that's you
know that's where
people people obviously have to be very
about pes but people not just from the
physical they're from the mid the ga and
all those other factors and that's
really the in quotations of of
destroying the out of p
um now um we and then we say it's
written in the I don't know what the
girls do to the girls In my house, we
used to sit down together and say as a
family, but you have a first because the
goes on
all every day of the year except for
one, the
he said it this morning, right? The
second
the
closes the day
after being there's no more. There's one
exception a year. One
And that's the pes the carbon which was
brought early depending whether it was a
weekday or shabas or of shabas it was
bred earlier than normal instead of
being brought at what we would call 9
and 1/2 hours which mean assuming that
sunrises at 6 and sun sets at 6 would be
3:30
they brought at 2:30 or even 1:30 or
even 12:30 which would be
so they had time to bring the pes so the
was before the pes So our custom is we d
and then we say carbon pes now a lot of
times people date the carbon have to be
brought by day. So we're always
particular but especially you want to
have time say before the you're supposed
to read the words and by reading the
words it's as if you brought the carbon
it starts with the words
that we can't bring us nowadays so we
our bringing the by saying it and I know
that is a day that everybody is busy
especially girls um but you should if
you're going to you should find a few
minutes to say the as well Now
comments or questions
right we actually say
right we don't we say it kadesh or you
sing it with the beginning of the s you
actually say the whole sed of the and
this is very very unusual because this
is the only time of the year that we do
it
you know Jews always have a sed you know
you always have a sed right you kish you
wash you eat fish you eat soup you eat
chicken you eat dessert you Right?
That's a but nobody says
fish.
You don't you don't spell out the steps.
You don't talk through the s you just do
it. And that's true in all areas of
life. When you go into a ritual, you
don't start the ritual by saying what
you're going to do.
You start the SA by orally saying here's
what's going to happen. There's going to
be 15 steps is what says two. And you
actually verbally say the whole
why there's two reasons. The obvious
reason is because the pes is more
complicated than other stom complicated
enough
to warrant that we should articulate.
Okay, here's what's going to happen.
I'll tell you a cute little detail, but
there's no such thing as cute little
details. I grew up in 770.
Um and there were people made
announcements okay the gaboya made
announcements sometimes the secretaries
made announcements but there were
certain announcements made by the
fabangan now before my time I don't
remember this the person who made those
announcements was aid by the name of
Dman it was a very interesting
he would get up and make announcements
when he passed away his announcements
were made by Talashki whom I remember
but Talasheski would use the names that
Dman had used before him where Dman took
this from I don't know but he would
stand up and he would say
that's how he would start his speech the
will now be as follows
first is going to bench
then the gonna give
you should listen to the was a regular
announcement was made four times a year.
This was normal. So the story goes in
one year after he made his announcement
says
first is going to give a good year he's
going to bench
all the wonderful things and then and
then is going to come
he repeated the same words said you're
supposed to listen to what you're told.
So the repeated
and you finish by saying and you're
supposed to listen but he was talking to
the you know this is the you're supposed
to listen give you
and then there other things and you have
to bring and you have to listen that's
the so on a simple level we say the 15
of kadesh because the s of pes is much
more involved and of course the reason
is because pes the s is more important
than in any at the time
I mean you guys know that the meaning of
the word is sed right you know that if
you look at from they don't use the word
they call how became sid means an
organization but means an order this
this we have from like and others it's
not a it's rules you do this first you
do the second it's a how you supposed to
do things there's a very famous
that talks about um the order of things
the sequence in which people do things.
So but Pes we actually articulated
because I'm PES the sed is more
important than any other time during the
year and the reason is
because it's balancing out
is the opposite of
iss
for lack of words
is Hashem
jolting us with a godly light and power
which slips us out of gul.
Hashem does right
the pashem
does he took us out of
he extracted one nation from within
another nation. So when you have an
experience of
your role is to give it
meaning if you have an extreme
experience and you experience it in an
extreme way it remains for an extremely
short amount of time. If you have an
extreme experience and you structure it
and you affect it that it should come
into your life with a sad you're giving
it the possibility of taking root that
even though Hashem is doing the
redeeming we're actually being redeemed.
So Pes
is extremely important. It's grounding
the the
so that's a reason why by the sed is so
important because the energies are so
transcendent so we we counterbalance or
we anchor or we ground
this experience with a seder go ahead
>> how can we experience it as life but we
have a sed and everything like
>> it's all ready all prepared Well, I
would say that this year it's a little
bit easier than normal. Just think about
the miracles that are happening in front
of our eyes right now.
>> Is that a special
>> it's it's leading up to PES. It's
between and PES the happened 12 months
before the we're watching Mashiah come
with her eyes. Keep shoot
now. Mashia is a you have to understand
Mashia is not killing Goya. Mashia is
redeeming and redeeming the world.
You understand? But this year and
everybody has their own time. I was
thinking this morning when I was dinging
the yid who lives in bar park but his
children live in heights. His name is
Fedman. He was a Holocaust survivor
and his his children and his
grandchildren would say that before they
made kdesh
he would stand up and say I want to tell
the story of my
and he lost a family. He lost a wife and
children in the holocaust. He remarried
had children after the war, but he would
tell his story. So you're right, you
seem has to be personal and we
>> well that's what he did. I'm not telling
you what to do. He it was very dramatic.
He was doing it for his children. He was
doing it for his grandchildren. And he
was he's a very warm he was a very
special
it was he was pure emotion, pure heart,
pure love. And he wanted to create he
was doing it this how he felt. But the
of it is a pim is the thing. I mean for
most of us we're struggling with you
know we have a lot of and if we have
succeeded in going out of mim or we're
fighting to go out of pes is a time that
helps us with our process of yeah
>> going out of sed
is bringing going out of sedar into
sedar. You first have to experience that
going out of sed
>> it's going out of limitation. Going out
of limitation and going out of sed are
not necessarily
the same thing.
>> It's not a kind of limitation.
>> Sad is an order. Sad is only a
limitation if we have OCD. If we're
stuck
uh sedan is order. order really the
truth of the matter is that people who
organized accomplish an infinite amount.
Order is the best way to achieve an
enormous amount. So no limitation and
say that don't necessarily have to be
the same thing. But of course you don't
make a kaida but uh your doem and your
fathers do and and to be sure if you're
sitting at a sed with no men I know many
women who come to say they make a kaida.
They bring their own matzas anyway. They
might as well make a kaida. It's not
written any place anywhere that only men
are supposed to have a kaida. I just
want to say a couple of interesting
thing about the kaida. Number one, we do
not use one of those shelves situations
that are just so beautiful. You know,
did used to fold a paper or a cloth in
three ways. That's how he did it. Um,
number two, underneath the kaida, you
put a plate. The Reb use a silver plate
because it says in
that by the underneath the you have to
have a plate of silver
only the Reb does. And the math is that
together with the plate you have 10us.
The plate is the is is malus. The three
matis areas. There was a who criticized
the for this. This six minimas
together with the plate it's 10. When
the Reba became Reb, he went and he
purchased a silver tray, a rectangular
silver tray. Rabbi Gro describes it and
they went together to they toled it and
the wrapped it in paper because the Reba
was Mr. underwhelming, Mr. Underpret
pretentious. The first 20 years made it
upstairs by the but so the Reb didn't
want people should see the silver plate.
So he covered the silver plate with
paper because officially the Reb is not
aba especially when you're sitting by
the tish but in fact he was a reba. So
the Reb used to use a silver tray and he
put it underneath the matus. Later on
the reb added a note that this mig that
you only use a kite of yourb is only at
the sed but at your own sed you should
have a kaido a plate. And again
cababalistically it's because you want
to have 10. You have three mats six
minimum but a plate is s is fetus. Um
you put a plate underneath. On top of
that you put either you know paper or
cloth and that's where you put the
matas. On top of that you put the six
minimum. You know
first of all talk about matzah.
It's very important when you eat matzah
to look at it first.
You understand that the biggest place
oft
is in the matzah. You're not going to
find in your potatoes. You're not going
to find in your cooked or not cooked
sugar. It's just not going to happen.
There's not going to be in your chopped
meat. There's going to be in your
matzah. If a matzah is not baked well,
it could becomes.
The place where this is most acute is
you have a koola. You know what a koola
means?
>> That it folds. And you could see it. You
look at a mat, you see right away
there's a wrinkle. You're not supposed
to eat the parts of the mat that are
folded. You have to break off. Now it
doesn't mean you have to break it off.
So it's not a schlma meaning if you need
and one of the has a fold
use it for but break off that piece
before you eat it. So before you eat
matzah, this applies the whole eight
days of pes. You should never eat a
matzah if we're looking at it. And if
there's a fold or a wrinkle, you break
it off and you put it in the garbage.
You don't need it. Now we're not
assuming it's we're assuming that may
not be baked well enough, which means
that if it comes in contact with water,
it's likely to become more quickly than
if the mat is completely baked, it can't
become. The only way the mat can become
is if there's flour left over or if
there's dough which hadn't baked um
adequately. So you're going to check
your uh your matas and we're crazy about
shuya. We're nuts about gibbrs. We're
really radical about gibbrros. So the
leaves for the motor that you put on the
kaido, you to dry them out, especially
the leaves that you're going to put into
the kaid, but you want it to be very,
very dry. And by the way, moist and cold
are not the same thing.
A wet hand and a cold hand are not the
same thing. Even though when you dry
your hands after until you die, you feel
like your hands are still wet. They're
not wet. They're just cold. But you keep
drying them until they warm up to room
temperature. You don't got to do that.
But they have to be dry. We're very very
particular about shuya. Now, um I'm not
going to go into the details of the
kaida. I just want to say this. We do
not use ines
ginger and um
I forgot the other thing because oft we
just use apples and pears and nuts and
we do not put the wine in when we make
it. Theis by us is dry. In other words,
if you make the in your house, you want
it to be dry. Even though may pis do not
make pear juice and apple juice will not
make you stick. But the k the
constitution of theis is a powder. It's
not very moist. It's dryish. You use a
lot of nuts. you what you do is before
you take some of the from the k you put
it in the dish of kdish which is a
little bit of wine and you mix it
together and then you have with wine
when you do kak
you don't even do that even if you have
wine without sugar again it's all part
of our absolute extreme about when you
do umis
with kaidak you take dry karis you take
it from the kaido you put on the motor
You shake it off but you do not add wine
because we're completely nuts. I mean
really completely nuts about we're
obsessive about and of course the last
day we're completely nuts about the
other way about doing
go ahead.
>> If it's totally dry like nothing's even
it's kind of like nothing even insisted
at all. You just dip it in the whole
thing is going to come off it.
>> That's what happens. Now if you look in
gam you're eating the sayas to take out
the worm which is poison in the in the
but uh
that's the meaning
you do it but you don't actually eat it
or get it
>> you eat it if you like it after the
sedan and after the second sa no one's
in love withis at that point for many
reasons including the fact that it's
aged and it doesn't age like wine you
understand ages like fresh fruit okay
now as far as kdish now this is a little
bit of a controversy but I tell my
daughters to do is make the whole kdesh.
Make the whole kdish. Why? Because we
make four betaguffins by the s on four
cups of wine. The first buffin is kdish.
So you're used to being y from your
husband. You're being used to being y
from your father. So there's different
opinions. Okay. This is what I tell my
kids to do. Other parents disagree with
me. I tell my daughters say you read the
whole kish with me.
and the whole thing. Of course, you have
to just remember you should not make
because you made your when you benched.
So, um this is what I do in my home. Uh
you'll do whatever your father tells you
and then a mit one day you'll argue with
your husband about who's the bigger of
you or him and who's going to pass and
whether you should do it according to
your parents or to his parents' mic and
let the best person win. Um, so I'm not
going to tell you what to do. But I am
telling you that for sure you have to
make a guffin. If you with your father's
kdish, you have to make a because we
make four and four. There are other
people who don't. By the way, some
people hold that four is there are some
people making two make the first and the
third one because you benched. But our
custom is make fourins even though
there's no we'll have sick because
they're four mitzvah and the making is
more mitzvah than it is a you're making
a mitzvah more than to have hano. Okay.
So that's the story with kdesh. Of
course, girls do not do Haba.
If you want to do Haba, you're welcome
to. I think if you're a feminist, leave
that for one of the last things you're
going to take on because it's a pain in
the neck. Haba is not Gishmak. It's not.
I don't enjoy Haba at all. Now, I I I
don't even put a pillow. I just lean.
It's because the pillow makes it even
harder to sit unless you have two
chairs. Only way to do properly is have
two chairs. You put the whole pile of
pillows next to you in another chair and
you tell that chair, "Don't move. Don't
move. You know what happen? You start
doing a saber and the chair starts
flying away.
So, so if the chair is very heavy, which
of course it means it's very expensive,
which not a lot of people can afford.
You have a very heavy chair next to the
chair with a lot of pillows and then you
can lean. But you're supposed to lay.
You're supposed to lean. So, I just
lean. If I need to lean on the person
next to me, we think they're leaning on
each other. But
the girls don't do they could. There's
no reason why not, but we don't do it.
Okay. Comments or questions?
Okay. Then we wash. Now the truth of the
matter is you do all the of washing. You
check your nails. You use a towel. By
God don't make please don't make when
you wash because it's a really big
problem. The story is that one year
somebody by the said
and the said to him it's okay.
you can make a table of eat and that's
what the person did. He ate kpass and he
continued the suda and when it came to
I don't know if he washed again I doubt
he made another after that by the
changed his mind
that he says I told this person
to make a no and he made a second
for but I changed my mind because since
the is so m about it's happened at my
house that one of my kids made and and
he had to eat my he loved it.
The rest of us waited for him, but
please don't make a bra. I just want to
say I remember growing up we would talk.
You know, you didn't make a there's no
shik. You really shouldn't talk. You
washed your hands. It's not under. It's
under
and when you wash your hands, you're
supposed to be aware of your hands till
you bench. Otherwise, you have to wash
your hands again. In the middle of a
suda, you're supposed to be aware of
your hands. The goes in the food, not
just in the first kazayas. Um anyway,
then we do you dip your vegetable into
salt water. The meaning is either potato
or onion. The rabbit I just saw for meal
who had a very special relation with
rabbitson that the rabbitson told him
that in 1941 they were in in Vichi. They
were in in in in in German occupied
France
and the Reba had a very hard time
getting together what he needed for the
sake. He needed matzah, he needed wine,
he needed karpas, needed mo, all the
things. And the one thing he was missing
was an onion. He had potatoes. And the
got on a trolley to travel across the
city to find an onion. And
when my husband got the trial to get the
onion, I wasn't sure if I'd ever see him
again because they were arresting Jews
off the street. The was
for an onion,
not for karpas, for an onion because is
to do
with an onion. But the she the most
important thing is that we eat less than
a kazay because you don't you make a
prima you don't want to have the bench
we eat a small piece the kids want to
eat 64 potatoes for kas because it's so
much fun you dip the salt water the salt
water all of a sudden tastes delicious
everything a pes is better than the rest
of the year after the pes who eat salt
water but okay anyway kbas now of course
that you do now you have to think about
the side of this the cultural side of
this okay the tradition was
but is first you make kdish then you
wash your hands then you break bread
pes you make kdish you wash your hands
and you eat the mash you eat a vegetable
so the kid says wait a minute what
happened to the bread but as soon as
they finish with the kas you take out
the bread and you break it so the kid
says okay a minor detour you understand
a minor detour we we we
usually make kiddish watch and eat bread
today we
washed, we ate vegetables, and now we're
going to eat bread. But you break the
bread, then you don't eat it. You put it
away.
And you fill up the second cup. The
child knows that the second cup of wine
is for benching. In a regular, you have
two cups of wine. A cup that opens the
kdesh and a cup that closes the
benching. So the kid says, "Wait a
minute. You're filling up the second cup
of wine for benching. We didn't eat at
That's the That's the scheme. That's the
choreography. You're you're doing things
number one the vegetable number two you
break the bread don't eat it you put it
away and you start saying and you say in
a cup so the child says
and there's a few things that are being
played out here one of them is that the
is said in a broken piece the is said in
a broken piece is
a poor person cannot afford the whole
loaf eats a broken piece so you break
the bread and it's called
means the bread of affliction. That's
how Rab Shak translates it. But means
of
means the bread of which we we we
looking for a word. I can't find it.
Which we which we say rhetorically. I'm
missing a word. Many words. In other
words, you say the hag on the ley, you
say the hag on the broken piece, which
is why the minuteabad is that for most
of the the matzah of ley sticks out of
the kaido.
Okay, what's going to happen is you're
going to do you're going to break the
matzah. You're going to put away the and
you're going to leave the the other
piece of levy sticking out and you're
going to say then you're going to push
it away. You're going to cover it. Why?
Cuz anytime you take out the wine, you
put away the bread because you don't
want to embarrass the bread. You fill up
the cup. You're going to say, you're
going to push away the cup. You're going
to bring the kaya close and you're going
to uncover the ley. The ley is going to
stay exposed till you get to visha.
Visha, you're going to put that piece of
matzah back in. You're going to pick up
the cup and do visha. Put the cup down,
push it away, and pull the matzah out.
And you're going to say the whole sedan
on the exposed ley until you're going to
get to at the very end of the say they
have you push the mat back in you pick
up the cup you say and then you say halo
and then you say all of that is done
with the wine so the matzah is covered
but for the duration of the sed when
we're reading that we the piece of
matzah which is broken is out because
the seder is said on a on a broken piece
and it begins with and it begins to the
child asking and we're us answering
because the design of the pes is that
the children should ask
and we should answer that's the
structure of that so we we we set the
child up to ask questions and uh then he
asks his question and then we answer
them go ahead
>> so if there's a real answer to these
question then what does it mean that
it's so that the children should ask
because you would do it anyways or if
the answer is so that the told them to
laugh then how's their name?
>> Let me just tell you a story.
It's famous. This is one of those famous
videos. It goes around every year pes
time. It 50 years ago the Reb went to
the s of the girls of which he did every
year. He went down into the basement. He
went to the kitchen. He spoke to the
cook. He came out and he had
one year rabbi
from Phil from Minnesota was here to
conduct the seda with the girls at
Khana.
So when the rebba was leaving he asked
who's going to ask the four questions.
So they told the rebba mendy menifyer is
my age. Menify is probably I'm 55 56 I'm
60 he's a many times over. Uh but then
he was a boy before mitzvah.
So the rebba said and does his father
turned to Rabi fell. Did his father know
the answer? And everybody laughed.
So the feeling was that the made a joke.
The next day after Musf the Reba called
Rabi Feller into his room.
He sent Rabi Klein to call him. Rabell
came to room. He said first of first
told him today his birthday. His
birthday is first day Pesak. So there
was an opportunity on his birthday. And
then the Reb said to him
joke. What I said last night was not a
joke. So Rabi Feller said to the Reb,
maybe what the Reb means is that since
we make the say that every year the
children already know what's happening.
So what's the point of going through the
questions and answers again? And the
said, "Yes, that's what I meant. This is
what you have to explain to the
children. And that's the answer to your
rhetoric.
It is a it is a dance. It is a
choreography. It's a it's a
we're not the child knows the questions.
The child knows the answers better than
his parents. In many cases, the
structure of the sad revolves around the
children. This is how it's done. And
when you say, "But yeah, but we know it
already. So then what's the point of
doing it?" That's the question you have
to find an answer for. Why do we keep
doing something that everybody knows
what it's about? And the answer
basically is some things you don't do to
get information. Some things you do to
reexperience
11. You're living it over again and
you're living it over in the framework
of the children asking questions. Now
there are four questions, four sons.
Each one is a different question and
there are three answers. Okay. Okay. In
the brought three opinions. The Mishna
says,
"What does that mean? I wish I had more
time."
You start with our own shame and you go
towards our own praiseworthiness. You
start off saying bad things about the
Jewish people and you radiate forward
towards saying positive Jewish people.
The three opinions are the opinion which
is in the very beginning is we were
slaves in Egypt.
The second opinion is you start with
you go back to Yanka
means love and then he went into and the
whole rest but there's a third ginos and
the third ginos is
there are three stages of shame that we
expose about our origins at the sed. The
earliest is you go back to before.
The second is you go back to going into
mits the y of and the third you go back
to being slaves in mits and going out of
in the three opinions in the we follow
all three. We start off with
okay then we do
and after we do that we go back to now
I'm assuming that the reason we start
with because that's really the most
important one the most important
answer to the question to the children
was we were slaves in Egypt you don't
have to go back earlier than that so
that's the first thing you tell the
child we were once slaves now we're free
then you go back to the earliest
possible gad I which is we were once our
ancestors wanted
was a little boy he worshiped idols and
then he found Hashem and he created a a
way of living which is consistent with
the belief in one god and he taught it
to the whole world we mention that every
year the s the last thing we do is the
middle of the three because that's the
one we study
the All hagod studies the fourukim that
a person says when they brought bikurim
you know the whole story we were we we
went into mit we were slaves in mitsim
we got out of mitsim and now we're going
into we have a whole celebration. So the
sequence is the first one you do is the
one that's
the second one you do is the earliest
and the third one you do is the one
you're going to spend the most time on
with one we're going to study. Okay.